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'''The Black Battalion (Cerný prapor)''' is a 1958 Czechoslovakian film about Czech members of the French Foreign Legion fighting in the French Indo-China War.
'''The Black Battalion (Cerný prapor)''' is a 1958 Czechoslovakian film about Czech members of the French Foreign Legion fighting in the French Indo-China War.
A plane carrying returning Foreign Legionnaires lands at a local airport. Waiting for them with anticipation are the relatives of legionnaires, including an old woman who questions the returning soldiers as to the fate of her son, however none of the men seem to recognize his name or photograph. The film then flashes back to Indochina, where private Vaclav Maly ([[Jaroslav Mareš]]) from Pilsen, after a year service in Algeria, arrives with other soldiers as reinforcements for a small fort. Soon after his arrival, the newcomers are involved in their first combat action. It ends in a fiasco, as the unit suffers great losses, including their commander. A new commander replaces him, ethnic German Wolf ([[Hannjo Hasse]]). This information is of great interest to Vaclav Maly. Since it is rumored that in World War II, Wolf possibly served in the SS overseeing the Wenceslas sector of Prague. A junior pay clerk, responsible for payments to the soldiers, has discussions with Maly which confirm his suspicions, that Wolfe indeed served in Pilsen with the SS, 90 kilometers west of Praque, where Malys' family lived. Many of them were killed by the SS during this time. Tensions between the commander and his subordinates begin to grow as ethnic Czechs plot revenge for the atrocities enacted by the Germans. An opportunity arises during a battlefield operation, as Commander Wolf decides to go out on his own and survey the field. He requests one volunteer and Maly eagerly agrees. The two men venture into the jungle. The film is then flashes forward, back to Prague and the airport scene. The mother, still unsuccessfully looking for her son, he asks a man called Petr ([[František Peterka]]), who served with Vaclav Maly, but he denies that he knows him and continues walking towards the main Airport building.




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The Black Battalion (Cerný prapor) (1958)

The Black Battalion (Cerný prapor) is a 1958 Czechoslovakian film about Czech members of the French Foreign Legion fighting in the French Indo-China War.


The following guns were used in the 1958 Czechoslovak film The Black Battalion (Cerný prapor):



MP40

In service the French foreign legion has occurred also at the MP40 submachine gun.

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MP40 - 9mm.
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Legionnaire shoots from MP40 at the Vietnamese villagers.
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Legionnaire Peter (František Peterka) in fight with guerrillas rescued by exact dose from submachine gun Václav´s life.
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Sgt. Storch (Kurt Oligmüller) with a legionaries armed MP40 submachine guns.

Sten

To fight in the jungle was Sten used by both sides of Indochina´s war.

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Sten Mk II - 9x19mm.
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The commander Ketham (Zdenek Kryzánek) was very fond of the Sten submachine gun.
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VPN soldier equipped with a Sten submachine gun mowed down legionaries of hiding in the bushes.
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Legionaries are moved through in the jungle with submachine guns Sten and MP40.

M1 Carbine

The legionaires also was used a U.S. M1 Carbine of various types.

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M1 Carbine - .30 Carbine
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The legionnaire hastily leaving the battlefield with a rifle on strap.
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M1 Carbine - .30 Carbine
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Václav Malý (Jaroslav Mareš) to way through the jungle with a M1A1 Carbine.
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After return from a combat hang his rifle an at the bed.

MAS-38

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MAS-38 Submachine gun - 7.65mm.
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Václav (Jaroslav Mareš) consist ​​MAS-38 submachine gun for the commander Wolf.
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New commander Wolf (Hannjo Hasse) with his submachine gun in hand.

Training Grenade

The legionnaires use what look like modified Great War Italian Pineapple grenades. France purchased many Grenades from Italy during WW1 and started building their own after a while. Though this film takes place in the post-WW2 years, the production seemed to use Italian Pineapple style training grenades, to impersonate French F1s or American Mk IIs.

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Legionnaire hung with “Pineapple” grenades in his belt.
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This a same type hand grenade was equipped also soldier VPN.
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Legionnaire Petr (František Peterka) is addition equipped with a submachine gun also by pair of the grenades.
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